Rejected photos...

[jippiejee]

Sometimes after a trip one makes a first selection of maybe ten photos, judging the rest not good enough for uploading or printing. But then, after a year or so, going back through your old sets, you might find photos you initially didn't think good enough, but that at a second glance, were interesting enough to be included. What are your examples? I suddenly liked this one from Jerusalem more than a year ago. Father and son...



jerusalem-street1 by aad_b, on Flickr

 

[kdemas]

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In answer to your question...I have often found a gem or two when going back after some time has passed. I think that sometimes, upon first glance, we are influenced by our memories of the scene being fresh. Later I think we may look more clearly at form or other factors.

 

[jippiejee]

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In answer to your question...I have often found a gem or two when going back after some time has passed. I think that sometimes, upon first glance, we are influenced by our memories of the scene being fresh. Later I think we may look more clearly at form or other factors.

Edited my embedded image, hoping it works now. But I think you're right. We move from emotional to more intellectual.

 

[andersju]

That's a nice picture. I'll see if I can find something here 🙂

Reminds me of a quote from Mason Resnick's "A workshop with Garry Winogrand": "He never developed film right after shooting it. He deliberately waited a year or two, so he would have virtually no memory of the act of taking an individual photograph. This, he claimed made it easier for him to approach his contact sheets more critically. "If I was in a good mood when I was shooting one day, then developed the film right away," he told us, I might choose a picture becuase I remember how good I felt when I took it, not necessarily because it was a great shot. You make better choices if you approach your contact sheets cold, separating the editing from the picture taking as much as possible.""

 

[jippiejee]

Yes, Winogrand is onto something essential there...

 

[p.giannakis]

I've got plenty of those.... This is one of them:

I didn't like it when I first saw it, I re-discovered it a year later and I quite like it actually...

 

[jippiejee]

Yep, that's beautiful 🙂

 

[shadowfox]

"Searchlight"

 

[daveleo]

Yes, the comments and quotes about emotion and objectivity are so true.

I also experience the opposite effect of loving one of my pictures at first, and then looking at it again a long time later wondering how I ever liked such a piece of junk !

 

[f16sunshine]

This originally was a reject. Then I accidentally brushed the auto enhance button while flipping through the other images. This acidic color set came up and made the image.. I added the odd crop to make the two subjects seem even less comfortable. I think it works. Not pretty but interesting.

 

[boomguy57]

Telephone by New .Trev, on Flickr

I initially wanted a person in it, but I didn't manage it. Looking back, though, I liked it for some reason.

 

[River Dog]

Good idea. It prompted me to have another look and I found a couple in the bin that remind me why I love the Rolleiflex 2.8 Planar with Ektar so much.

 

[jippiejee]

Funny how at first they were rejected.... yet so strong.